User talk:Goodmanintern

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, Goodmanintern, may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is the name company or group. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you. Jeremy (talk) 16:44, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Re: Changes to Goodman Theatre page
Hi. I removed your changes to the Goodman Theatre page because they are copied directly from the Goodman Theatre website. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material. External websites or publications may be used as a sources of information, but not as a source of article content (see Copy-paste). If the Goodman Theatre has given permission for material from their website to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license used by Wikipedia, there needs to be either a note on the Goodman Theatre website saying that, or a representative of the Goodman Theatre needs to email details to Wikipedia as described here. Please note however that there is no ownership of articles on Wikipedia—all text submitted to Wikipedia may be edited by others, or even removed. Please also note that the Goodman Theatre website can only be regarded as a primary source for information on the Goodman Theatre. Wikipedia should primarily rely on secondary sources for information.

I also note from your username that you appear to be editing as a representative of the Goodman Theatre. Please read our conflict of interest policy. If you are editing as an individual and not a representative of the Goodman Theatre, please consider changing your username as I detailed above—this username could be blocked as being an infringement of our username policy. Thanks, —Jeremy (talk) 19:56, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

RE: RE: Changes to Goodman Theatre page
I am an intern at Goodman Theatre, I was assigned to change our Wikipedia page for publicity needs, these changes which I tried to make have been verified by Goodman's publicity office. Can I use a different reference other than Goodman's webpage because this information is available at other sources? This seems to be overly complicated, Goodman Theatre would like to update our page and would like to do so easily, quickly, and with Wikipedia's approval.
 * As I explained above, though input from any individual is welcome, the Goodman Theatre cannot take ownership of the Wikipedia article. It does not exist for their publicity needs and should not be regarded as such. Please refer whoever instructed you to make these changes to our conflict of interest policy. I have asked for some outside opinions on this issue, so others may provide further advice here. Thanks —Jeremy (talk) 17:24, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, please note that if you're allowed to copy material directly from Goodman's website, you need to actually establish that with us. Please see our guidelines on Donating copyrighted materials.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:30, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * According to the conflict policy noted for you, you may edit this article (under a proper user name) if you do so in a nuetral fasion, suitable for an encyclopedia. This article is out of date and should certainly be updated by you or someone else. Easily dated material should be avoided.Alanscottwalker (talk) 03:13, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

August 2010
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because your username, Goodmanintern, does not meet our username policy. '''Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below).''' A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive, or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account.

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:
 * Adding on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
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If you feel that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:28, 25 August 2010 (UTC)